Identity, Belonging and Migration

by Delanty, Gerard; Wodak, Ruth; Jones, Paul

• ISBN13: 9781846316890
• ISBN10: 1846316898
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-07-15
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press

Summary

This volume addresses the question of migration in Europe. It is concerned with the extent to which racism and anti-immigration discourse has been to some extent normalised and 'democratised' in European and national political discourses. Mainstream political parties are espousing increasingly coercive policies and frequently attempting to legitimate such approaches via nationalist-populist slogans and coded forms of racism. Identity, Belonging and Migration shows that that liberalism is not enough to oppose the disparate and diffuse xenophobia and racism faced by many migrants today and calls for new conceptions of anti-racism within and beyond the state. The book is divided into three parts and organised around a theoretical framework for understanding migration, belonging, and exclusion, which is subsequently developed through discussions of state and structural discrimination as well as a series of thematic case studies. In drawing on a range of rich and original data, this timely volume makes an important contribution to discussions on migration in Europe.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	p. vii
List of Figures	p. viii
Notes on Contributors	p. ix
Introduction: Migration, Discrimination and Belonging in Europe Gerard Delanty	p. 1
Theoretical Perspectives on Belonging
Belonging and European Identity	p. 21
Identity, Belonging and Migration: Beyond Constructing 'Others'	p. 38
'Us' and 'Them': Inclusion and Exclusion - Discrimination via Discourse	p. 54
Dilemmas of Secularism: Europe, Religion and the Problem of Pluralism	p. 78
Institutional Forms of Discrimination
Racism, Anti-Racism and the Western State	p. 101
What Space for Migrant Voices in European Anti-Racism?	p. 120
Multiculturalization of Societies: The State and Human Rights Issues	p. 134
Towards a Theory of Structural Discrimination: Cultural, Institutional and Interactional Mechanisms of the 'European Dilemma'	p. 152
On Institutional and Agentic Discrimination: Migrants and National Labour Markets	p. 173
Non-Place Identity: Britain's Response to Migration in the Age of Supermodernity	p. 198
Cases of Belonging and Exclusion
Symbolic Violence	p. 221
Voices of Migrants: Solidarity and Resistance	p. 241
Transformations of 'Dutchness': From Happy Multiculturalism to the Crisis of Dutch Liberalism	p. 261
Competent vs. Incompetent Students: Polarization and Social Closure in Madrid Schools	p. 279
Conclusion: Discrimination as a Modern European Legacy	p. 301
Index	p. 311
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